Many people wrote the Beavers off this year, saying they'd miss the playoffs. Stating that last year this team 'overacheived'. Nobody told the Beavers.
Well into June, the Beavers find themselves one of the hottest teams in the BSA right meow. Sitting with a record of 45-32, good enough to hold 2nd place in the East, and 4 up in the Wildcard for the all-important playoff spot.
Mind you these Beavers have had their struggles, while crushing LHP to lead them to a 19-4 record against the southpaws, RHP has been a kryptonite for this team, only at 26-28.
"After last years' collapse against the Hitmen, front-loaded with LHP, we looked at our team and determined we needed to address that issue." Aaron Blank told reporters, "we brought in new bats and old ones are mashing LHP, Kelly's slamming them at a .369 clip, Howlin' Mad Murdock at .370 with 6 dingers, hell even Big Z is killing at a .310 clip with 3 jacks vs LHP. With most guys contributing, this Beaver team is Legen - wait for it - darily overacheiving."
The Beavers also show no quit, many times coming from behind to force extra-innings, as seen in the Hitmen series. This leads the Beavers to an astounding 16-3 record in one-run games. Speed has a lot to do with this, after all these guys lead all the BSA in SB's with 115.
The pitching has also come around, 4 out of the 5 starters are all on hot-streaks and lead the NL SP's ERA with 3.10 and 3rd overalll at 3.30. Not bad at all.
To make the critics happy defence is also a huge part of playing in Baffin, after all, the field is frozen tundra and the size of a zoo. Which leads the pitchers BABIP to be an astonishingly low .254 with original Beaver Jimmy Sanders leading the way with a .216 BABIP.
Look out for these hot Beavers, they may take your city by storm.
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